i was thinking about modern AUs and how rose and jules would dress

rose powerdresses like HE HAS SHORT, IMMACULATELY COMBED HAIR and wears suits all the time

and jules wears floral printed pants

ok i finally got that out of my chest fksal;kgl

this is a very important topic to me and if you don't think jules has shirts with awful tea puns on them I don't think our friendship can last

JULES ABSOLUTELY WEARS FLORAL PRINTED PANTS

OH YES AWFUL TEA PUNS OMG

modern AU Rose has always been hard for me to settle on but I think suits all the time is probably the most likely

he thinks they're adorable and rose forces him to wear a blazer with that at least

but like. obnoxiously fancy suits.

omg yeah

imported from italy or something

he wears cravats and it's 2013

hahaha omfg

LIKE EDGEWORTH

I can't see him with short hair though... Jules probably convinced him to keep in long......

maybe it's immaculately braided?

okay but Rosemariné is LITERALLY 1880s tragedy AU Franziska

TRUE

............cute

one neat braid in the back

did I just use literally to mean very I am so ashamed

with a girly ribbon at the end

hahaha

modern au jules still wears shawls

it gets very cold out, he says

this man has a gang

he wears your grandma's clothes he looks incredible

they probably look so weird when they walk together

....rose dresses like the modern AU of my OC complete with the braid wow

I keep forgetting about the gang thing omg

i laughed for like 5 minutes yesterday because i thought JULES HAS A GANG randomly

modern au where they are happily married: Jules is in charge of most of the childcare and when Rose comes into kindergarten for some event everyone else is like wHAT

they thought mr. de ferrier's husband was probably equally floral and motherly

your mom is super pretty!!!

HE DOESN'T REALLY.... HAVE A GANG EXACTLY... it's complicated.......

little baby rosemariné-de ferrier has such an odd perception of gender roles

hahaha yes

man rose is probably one of those parents

that keep going outside to talk in the phone

....rose would be angelica from rugrats' mom

.........yeah

someone picks on his baby and somehow when she goes to school the next day the bully is TERRIFIED to get near her

jules has to assure their kid that rose also cares about them but it's just that he's really busy keeping food on the table

"dad what did you do" "don't worry about it"

sometimes I think about Rose being a parent but still with a phobia of being touched

jfsalkf;laskfl;sakflkf

....awww, and the kid asks why daddy doesn't hug them

I mean obviously in canon serge and jules are able to touch him but there is still that scene where he doesn't realize that it's jules for a second and he freaks out

Papa has to explain that Daddy wants to hug her but it scares him when it's a surprise

stOP MAKING ME SAD SCREECH

man it's rose too so it would take years before jules could finally convince him to take therapy

he doesn't need therapy he can crush this with his mind vice

yeah and it would probably be really unproductive therapy for a while, too

yeah because he'd be convinced that he is perfectly fine

this man is unqualified

at least until he was living on his own? I feel like if he were living with his parents he would be constantly worried about them finding things out about him

yeah probably!!

which is fine because 99% of the time he makes the proud but he's also a rape survivor and gay and that is just bound to be a family scandal

yeah that too. and jules wouldn't want to push him to do it because he's jules.

yeah i think for a while he'd try to lay low with his relationship with jules

the therapist tells him it's private but as long as it's on his father's credit card who knows :T

like he's probably a businessman with ambitions of being a politician and it's really hard to win in those fields if you're gay so

i think he'd probably want to pay therapy with his own money

fortunately most people are too afraid of them to ask if they're dating

FEAR JULES' FLORAL PANTS

Rose is pretty openly homophobic in canon though I don't think that would have to change in a AU

there are probably rumors going around that he hides a knife in those pants okay

(they're skinny jeans so nobody knows HOW)

idk how to handle that in an AU tbh

KLD;SAKF;LKSF

I feel like he'd still be super catholic and since his family is probably really old money I imagine they'd be politically conservative

that said I am not sure how much pressure there is to be closeted in modern-day France even if you are on the conservative side

rose would probably have a hard time coming out of the closet tbh

...harder time admitting it to himself

yeah, and I've always imagined auguste raping him as fucking up his perception of his own sexuality a lot

gonna imagine he comes to terms with it in his... mid twenties or something

(especially because I do think baby Rose could have had kind of a crush on him and in that case "what if I'm gay" could easily lead to "what if I secretly wanted it")

(I also have a lot of emotions about nobody in kazeki seeing only negative models of queer sexuality.)

fsak;fksf oh god 8(

meanwhile jules comes out to his mom and she's not very surprised at all

HAHAHA

she has always known

he keeps hanging out with that rosemarine kid

ok i gtg adeline but this was fun hugs and kisses

"sweetie no straight man has that many floral-print teacups"

noooooo okay bye have fun 8(

NO STRAIGHT MAN HAS THAT MANY FLORAL PRINT TEACUPS omfg

Jules has the most conventionally feminine characterization of any male character I've ever encountered okay